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January |
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The
bits of stuff that fall in the cracks between Life,
Music and Outrageous Fortune. |
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James,
the Shepparton PC Doctor, oversees the installation
of Windows 7 |
New
toys for the studio
25.1.13 - My brain
hurts already. James (pic) very
kindly came all the way down from Shepparton
to install Windows 7, thereby dragging me
kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
I've still got XP on my web PC, otherwise
they would've had to administer first aid,
but the new laptop with its baffling Windows
8 and now the studio PC with both Windows
and Cubase 7 have combined to have
me treading very carefully.
I think I'll have to have another cup of
tea and a lie down..
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Denis
Le Neuf holds forth |
Pictures
of Denis
23.1.13 - I've probably
mentioned Denis before. He's one of the pleasant
hazards I have to negotiate as a Choclatte
regular. Our visits coincide once a month
or so and so I wasn't too surprised yesterday
to see the door to the deck being pushed ajar
and Denis beckoning for me to sit at his table.
He was finishing off writing a postcard to
another of his impossibly young and attractive
female acquaintances while still being alert
to another attractive teenager who sat at
the table behind him. I'm guessing it keeps
him young. Denis is passionate about girls
- and women - and music, particularly jazz.
He's a trumpet player himself although he
hasn't played his trumpet for a number of
years. The last time I saw him I recommended
the excellent Treme series and I
reminded him about it yesterday. Denis isn't
as addicted as I am to the telly but I could
tell he was interested in my descriptions
of the show, particularly the music and the
musicians. He sighed. He hasn't been to New
Orleans but it's on his list to do one day.
He sighed again. Perhaps I'll stay, he said.. |
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The
Duck gloats as he brings up yet another Cubase
7 feature |
Moon
provides incentive
10.1.13 - John Moon that
is. (pic) It's been a couple of years
since I've visited the Duck in his Northcote
lair, but a remark on FB about Cubase 7 'unleashing
the beast' got me curious and so I set up
a meeting for yesterday arvo.
I've been winging it with a crack version
of Cubase 5 for a few months and quite enjoying
it, although the leap from my corroding Cubase
VST provided a few challenges. Cubase 7 looks
considerably meaner than 5 and being
the superficial chap that I am, that's good
enough for me.
I ordered it from eBay today. All things being
equal I should have it in a couple of weeks.
Hooray! |
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Thomas
Demand's rendering of the Fukushima control
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Cultural
imperatives..
9.1.13 - It's always good when
Maria's in town because I get to accompany
her to a bunch of exhibitions that I didn't
even know were on, let alone that I needed
to see. So, on the very hot Thursday
last week we went to the Monash
Gallery of Art at Wheelers Hill - just
a few minutes from my home in Mt Waverley
- where we took refuge from the heat and
saw photographic shows from Pat Brassington
and Ingeborg Tyssen.
We took Chris to The Hobbit movie
on Sunday, which he seemed to enjoy and
enthusiastically thanked the concession
staff on the way out.
Encouraged by this we took him along the
next day
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to the NGV
to see the very curious photographs of Thomas
Demand and The Four Horsemen collection
- and again he got into the spirit of things,
occasionally installing himself as a co-exhibit
when he got a bit bored.
On Tuesday we tripped down to the Ian
Potter Gallery and mused over the photos
of the mumbling Canadian photographer, Jeff
Wall, before adjourning to the Ian Potter
Museum
of Art at Melbourne University to check
out some more abstruse exhibits and then taking
Maria to Tullamarine where she'd contracted
with Virgin to be a passenger (remember passengers?)
on one of their planes back to the ACT. Come
back soon, Maria! |
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